Legal Opinion
School Committee v. Town Accountant
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided January 31, 1985PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
The town accountant of Wilmington issued a memorandum stating that the school committee (the committee) must submit to her by June 10,1983, all purchase orders which it proposed to have charged against its budget for the town’s fiscal year 1983. The committee’s business manager promptly took the position that G. L. c. 71, § 34, as amended through St. 1981, c. 782, § 14 (see the appendix to this rescript), gave the committee authority “to determine expenditures within the total appropriation” by the town.
The town accountant, on June 17, 1983, replied that, unless the committee could…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Massachusetts Teachers Ass'n v. Secretary of the CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Superintendent of Schools v. Mayor of LeominsterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
3Cited by1 opinion
- Leicester School Committee v. Town of LeicesterMassachusetts Superior Court · 2010